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Memories of the War From a Young Woman in India by Joan Wakefield (nee Cambay)

To the reader this sounds not at all like war, there were lighter moments, for instance there was the funny...

Life in the Unique 93RD Searchlight Regiment RA manned only by Women

This was the 93rd Searchlight Regiment RA the only one in the world entirely manned by women. Putting on...

From Camberley to Malaysia

At the age of 19, I decided I wanted to be a driver in the A.T.S. I was sent t o Camberley...

All Girls Together

When I was better I was sent to an Ordnance depot situated in a barracks in Feltham in Middlesex and...

Leaving Home for the first time: Joining the ATS

I was then posted to 62 VRDat Byron Park, Ferrybridge and it was great. When 62 VRD closed my friend and a...

Service In Signals

At Headquarters teleprinters received messages constantly and these messages were then redistributed to...

Roma blows her trumpet

On 20th June we played in the 'Festival d'amitie Franco Brittanique' on the Champs Elysees and...

Ten Years Service in the A.T.S.

After 3 weeks training and being kitted out in uniform I was posted to Central Ordnance Depot, Chilwell,...

A Merry Dance

My worst memory is of the night the Germans flew over Edinburgh to bomb Glasgow... One old fellow from one...

Was it really that hot mum?

A week after war was declared there was a knock on my grandparents door, a letter was given to my...

Time in the Forces: On a Gun Site in High Howden

Before going in the forces while hairdressing the culliery was bombed... I think its just experience of...

London High Grade Cipher School

You can read what happened next to Jessie in her story "Uxbridge SHAEF and London Bushey". Jessie...

When Mr Hitler Broke the Eggs

I wsn't allowed to be idle during those three weeks, I was made to work in a laundry in Ramsgate...

My Wartime Experience by Maisie Polwarth

The wedding was planned for Monday April 27th 1942 and the previous Tuesday, call up papers arrived for me...

The Night The Bells Rang

When you are eighteen, you are young, silly and just the right age to serve in the British Army, for...

My Time in the War: AA Batteries in Dorset and Chatham

I joined in 1941 and travelled up to Dalkieth in Scotland for 6 weeks' training as a predictor and then...

Army Life in the Pay Corps

Before Christmas I received orders to join the Royal Army Pay Corps at Leicester. Factories, some two or...

A.T.S postings

I was sent on a Kine-Theodolite course to Manorbier in South Wales which was the home of the School of Anti-Aircraft Artillery. From then on I was always stationed...

Beatrice Lee

644 Battery was based at Carlton Hall Farm near Yeadon, then we moved to the Adel area of Leeds. I would...

ATS Memories

644 Battery was based at Carlton Hall Farm near Yeadon, then we moved to the Adel area of Leeds. I would...

The Story of Dorothy Parker

I did a course of night work sitting on the tailboards handing guns to the troops in the lorry including...

Beating The Ban

Margaret discovered that the border of the prohibited area was at Singleton, about six miles to the north...

Daft Orders

Mildred Ferrie became a typist in 1938 and shortly after this joined the women's army... Luckily, the...

My Wartime Memories, Cornwall

I remained good friends with the other two girls who started up the station and in spite of spending 25...

A Busy War

I enjoyed driving, and I felt that I was doing something useful, and what's more I was stationed in a...

Pony Girls

I was old enough to do some war work, so I heard about an Army Remount Depot that needed girls to look...